Core requests FTP info to update, plugins do not …
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I’m wondering if anyone can perhaps suggest a direction.
I have a Digital Ocean server I setup. It’s a single domain development server, CentOS7.
I copied files into /var/www/html using rsync from another server. I have checked permissions (755 on folders, 644 on files). I have set the ownership of the files to be apache:apache. PHP is running under apache.
WordPress runs great. I can view the site, I can post, I can upload files, I can update plugins, WordPress core updates fail however. Initially they fail with a request for FTP credentials. After I add define(‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’); to config.php I get an error:
Downloading update from https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/release/wordpress-4.9.6-no-content.zip…
Unpacking the update…
Warning: copy(/var/www/html/development/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/update-core.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/development/wordpress/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 243
The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions.: wp-admin/includes/update-core.phpInstallation Failed
line 243 refers to wp-admin/page.php which does not exist.
Everything I have read suggests my ownership and permissions are correct, I can update plugins … but not the core. Does anyone have any suggestion as to why they might be different.
Thank you!
Regards
Mike
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I have fixed the issue. Yay. Less than six months I think …
I found these pages:
https://www.rayheffer.com/building-secure-wordpress-server-lamp-centos-7-selinux/
https://francispereira.com/deploying-wordpress-with-selinux-enabled/In the end I changed all files and folders in my www directory to:
httpd_sys_rw_content_t
using:
$ semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t “/var/www(/.*)?”‘
and then:
$ restorecon -Rv /var/www
and both the core and themes and plugins update now from wp-admin.
I am not sure how secure applying the above setting to an entire web root folder is, but it is a development server so I am happy for the moment. If anyone has thoughts let me know.
Regards
Mike
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